IN BRIEF
EXITING PRIVATE DRIVEWAY
LV woman dies from accident injuries
An 89-year-old Las Vegas woman died Monday from injuries sustained in a May 3 car crash on Harmon Avenue near Koval Lane, police said.
Margret Dienes was pronounced dead at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.
At 6:05 p.m. May 3, Dienes was a passenger in a 2005 Buick Le Sabre driven by 90-year-old George Dienes. The Buick was heading north from a private drive when it traveled into the path of a 2005 Lincoln Town Car that was traveling east on Harmon and driven by 42-year-old John Simon. The Lincoln hit the right side of the Buick.
Simon and George Dienes both suffered moderate injuries in the crash.
Failing to yield the right-of-way from a private drive probably was the cause of the collision, police said, but the accident remains under investigation.
LV POLICE MAKE ARREST
Man killed in collision in Las Vegas identified
A man who died Sunday morning after his car was struck by a vehicle whose driver ran a red light near the intersection of Torrey Pines Drive and Lone Mountain Road was identified as 51-year-old Gregory Reyes of Las Vegas.
Laura Bryner, 20, was arrested Sunday on recommended charges of felony driving under the influence causing a death and felony reckless driving in connection with the incident.
Bryner was driving a Chevrolet Blazer about 1:50 a.m. Sunday south on Torrey Pines when she ran a red light at a high rate of speed and entered the intersection, striking Reyes's BMW, which had a green light and was traveling east on Lone Mountain, police said.
Reyes was pronounced dead at the scene.
Bryner was taken to University Medical Center and treated for minor injuries. Police said Bryner was booked into the Clark County Detention Center after being released from the hospital.
CRASHED INTO LIGHT POLE
Victim of Henderson wreck was Las Vegan
A 34-year-old Las Vegas man died early Saturday after crashing his sport utility vehicle into a light pole on Lake Mead Parkway near Boulder Highway in Henderson.
The man, whose identity was not released, was driving east on Lake Mead in a Jeep Grand Cherokee at about 2:10 a.m. when he crashed into a light pole in the median, Henderson police said.
The Jeep then struck several trees and boulders in the median before overturning and sliding across the westbound lanes of Lake Mead and coming to a stop on the shoulder of the road.
The driver was ejected and died at the scene.
Speed was considered a factor in the crash, police said.
Toxicology test results are pending to determine whether drugs or alcohol also were a factor.
ROLLOVER CRASH
Single-vehicle accident victim an LV teenager
A woman who died Saturday morning after her sport utility vehicle overturned on the Las Vegas Beltway near Green Valley Parkway was identified as 18-year-old Karla Arroyo-Dejarano of Las Vegas.
Arroyo-Dejarano was driving in the center westbound lane about 8 a.m. when, for unknown reasons, she veered to the right, across the right shoulder, according to Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Kevin Honea.
She then steered sharply to the left and her vehicle overturned.
Arroyo-Dejarano was pronounced dead at the scene.
Honea said Arroyo-Dejarano was wearing a seat belt and there was no evidence of drug or alcohol use at the scene.
LAS VEGAS ACCIDENT
Passenger killed in crash identified
A man who died in a Friday night traffic accident on Silverado Ranch Boulevard near Eastern Avenue was identified as 23-year-old Jared Millard.
Millard was in the passenger seat of a 2003 Dodge Neon driven by 20-year-old Jaban Aguayo.
As the Neon was making a left turn from Silverado Ranch into a Target shopping center at 10:58 p.m., the vehicle pulled into the path of an eastbound 1997 GMC Sierra 3500 pickup on Silverado Ranch, according to Las Vegas police.
The truck, driven by 21-year-old Randy Bartolone, swerved but was unable to avoid the Neon. The front of the truck hit the passenger side of the car.
Millard was pronounced dead upon arrival at St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus. Aguayo suffered moderate injuries. Bartolone was not injured.
Failing to yield the right of way to the pickup was the cause of the accident, police said.
NEAR BULLHEAD CITY, ARIZ.
Teen who drowned in Colorado River named
The teenager who drowned in the Colorado River near Bullhead City, Ariz., on Sunday was identified as Lexia Stafford of Needles, Calif.
Authorities said the 17-year-old drowned when three teenage girls decided to leave their raft to swim to shore at Davis Camp in Bullhead City.
Mohave County (Ariz.) sheriff's office spokeswoman Trish Carter said two of the girls made it to the beach, but Stafford disappeared under the water and drowned about 4:30 p.m.
Carter said Stafford's body was recovered by divers about 21/2 miles down river near the Bullhead City Chamber of Commerce building.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Governor appoints head of state agency
Mike Skaggs, who has made a career of expanding business activity in Southwest states, was named Monday as executive director of the Nevada Commission on Economic Development.
Gov. Jim Gibbons named Skaggs after a search launched after Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, who oversees the state's economic development efforts, asked Tim Rubald to step down from the post in mid-November.
In his new job paying just over $100,000 yearly, Skaggs will oversee a staff of about 30 employees and manage a nearly $13 million, two-year budget.
Skaggs most recently was an executive with DW Turner Public Relations and Advertising, and previously ran Next Generation Economy Inc., both in Albuquerque, N.M.
He also was an executive with Albuquerque Economic Development and the Economic Development Group in Phoenix.
Gibbons also named Luis Valera of Henderson and Miranda Du of Reno to the economic development commission.
